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Murder Mystery

Last weekend I tried to upgrade my Debian Stable to testing. Everything went super until I tried to run startx. It returned command not found. I've been searching and thinking about it all week, but I can't seem to figure it out. At first I thought the x-server was borked, but it's there and loading. Then I tried fooling around with Gnome, but that seems to be OK too.

I know this can't be hard to fix, but I'm not sure where to look next. Any ideas?

Re: Murder Mystery

Did you configure X? Its a radical upgrade from stable to testing as far as X goes so you may want to reconfigure X and if the package isnt there at all just apt-get install task-x-window-system or apt-get install task-x-window-core if you want just the core files.

Re: Murder Mystery

Ok, Itried to re-configure X, but that also returns command not found. So, I tried to apt-get install task-x-window-system, but that returns a broken package (using US debian server testing). So tried to dl' the broken depends first (rstart &amp; rstartd). But I can't seem to connect to the server. It tells me that &quot;something wicked&quot; happened to the connection.

Here is the sources.list I use and that I used to upgrade from stable to testing.
I would apt-get remove your current xwindows stuff and then I would just use these sources list to upgrade to testing version of X. But, I would do a apt-get update , apt-get dist-upgrade to make sure you upgraded everything. Then, apt-get your xwindows system.

Here is the sources.list I use and that I used to upgrade from stable to testing.
I would apt-get remove your current xwindows stuff and then I would just use these sources list to upgrade to testing version of X. But, I would do a apt-get update , apt-get dist-upgrade to make sure you upgraded everything. Then, apt-get your xwindows system.

Yeah those are the sources that I'm using. And thats the way I went about trying to upgrade to testing. I will try to do remove X and then re-install. If that can't cure it I will go to XFree86.org and try it that way.